David Susskind Movies

Following their parents' divorce and their mother's subsequent suicide, a teenager and his younger brother are resentful of having to live with the...

Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't...

After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’...

A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, Hal Holbrook portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians,...

In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes...

The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was...

In 1961, David Susskind conducted a series of interviews with former President Harry Truman in Truman's hometown of Independence, Missouri. After...

The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their...

In the year AIDS was first defined by the CDC, this 1982 program is a human rights debate between religious scholars and notable gay New Yorkers.

"An after-dinner farrago" featuring British writers and performers Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

The fascinating 1973 interview with a mid-level hitman named “Joey” who describes in detail his life in the mob that included the murder...

Unsold pilot for Carol Lawrence's talk show

The historic interview that stopped JFK in his tracks...

An extensive interview originally broadcast in Feb. 1979. Host David Susskind and Truman Capote discuss the icon's history, his writing, his social...

An anti-Communist propaganda film produced by the United States Information Agency for the indoctrination of the children separated by Operation...